A bus carrying a team of rescuers from Odisha, headed to aid the operations to trace 15 miners trapped in a rat-hole coal mine in Meghalaya, was attacked in East Jaintia Hills district allegedly by people protesting against the citizenship bill, police said on Friday.
District Superintendent of Police Sylvester Nongtynger said while there was no injuries to any personnel when the bus was targeted on Thursday night on the National Highway in the Khasi-Jaintia Hills region, the vehicle was partially damaged.
Protests have been reported from several places in the northeast region against the Citizenship (Amendment) Bill that seeks to accord Indian citizenship on non-Muslims from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan. On Thursday night, a group of 14 NGO sponsored a night blockade on highways and hence traffic movement on the National Highway was disrupted, police said.